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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day February 22 Saint Margaret of Cortona The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle Saint Abilius, Bishop of Alexandria Saint Aristion of Salamis Saint Baradat, Confessor Blessed Diego Carvalho, Priest and Martyr Blessed Eduard Profittlich, Bishop and Martyr Blessed Isabelle of France Maelbrighte, Archbishop of Armagh Saint Margaret of Cortona   Saint Maximian, Bishop of Ravenna Blessed Mohammed Abdalla, Religious Saint Papias, Bishop Saint Paschasius, Archbishop of Vienne Paul of Nicosia, Capuchin Sabinianus, Pope Saint Thalassius, Confessor Saint Urbana, Martyr Saint Valerius, Martyr of Nicomedia Saint Euterius Palatinus and 30 Companions, Martyrs Martyrs of Arabia Saints Victorinus and Companions, Martyrs -2202-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of February WELCOME! SAINT MARGARET OF CORTONA, PENITENT Saint Margaret of Cortona was a native of Alviano, in Tuscany. The harshness of a step-mother, and her own indulged propensity to vice, cast her headlong into the greatest disorders. The sight of the carcass of a man, half putrefied, who had been her gallant, struck her with so great a fear of the divine judgments, and with so deep a sense of the treachery of this world, that she in a moment became a perfect penitent.  A HARROWING EXPERIENCE The first thing she did was to throw herself at her father’s feet, bathed in tears, to beg his pardon for her contempt of his authority and fatherly admonitions. She spent the days and nights in tears, and to repair the scandal she had given by her crimes, she went to the parish church of Alviano, with a rope about her neck, and there asked public pardon for them. After this she repaired to Cortona, and made her most p...